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Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

@bjdunfee.bsky.social

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Liberal political junkie who enjoys fiber arts and painting rocks. Heledd in the SCA (Northshield). Small blue dot in the sea of red that's South Dakota. Old woman who mostly yells at the TV.

No clue why some of the people following me are doing so.

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Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

@bjdunfee.bsky.social

A couple or three months ago when there was an influx of users there were a lot of posts about blocking and moving on, as well as some blowback from blocked people.
i came across this recently and think it explains it blocking well.

Four panel comic strip from pizzacakecomic on patreon:

1st panel: A brunette woman in a green shirt is being yelled at by an angry person wearing a grey T-shirt whose head is simply a white circle with sketched in features: "Why do you block people? Why won't you DEBATE? Are you SCARED??"

2nd panel: White Circle-head continues to pontificate until cut off: "I deserve an argument abou-"

3rd panel: Woman grabs Circle-head by the T-shirt with both hands yanking him sharply forward and off-balance. (Panel text simply reads *GRAB*)

4th panel: Pissed off woman, now looming over off-balance Circle-head who she is holding up by his shirt: "I don't owe you an audience for your annoying bullshit"

June 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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Another picture of the full moon tonight as it's moved westward. This one taken on night vision. #ShittyCameraChallenge #WitchSky

Bright full moon in a break between clouds with the top of a hill and treeline below and houselights underneath that.

April 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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I got a lovely photo of the moon between clouds tonight. My phone rarely captures things at night this well.
#ShittyCameraChallenge because my phone camera usually is shit, especially at night. Also #WitchSky.

Full Moon emerging behind a curved cloudbank with separate clouds curving below it. A sparse handful of city streetlights and lights outside houses pierce the darkness below. Photo is in stark black and white, showing the moon and electric lights below shining brightly white with a lot of pitch black surrounding them.

April 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM

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April 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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(from an X (Twitter) user rohit (@krishnanrohit)

"This might be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.. 4o, o3 high, Gemini 2.5 pro, Claude 3.7, Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily."

(Followed up by screenshots of various AI answers, which I apologize for not typing out, but I'm on my phone and the screenshot text is too small to read without exiting alt text. But suffice it to say they all have similar answers giving a quick and dirty way to figure out what to use.

My understanding is this is not the way experts would make official policy and it can give bad results.)

April 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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Also I had to wait for scudding clouds to move out of the way.

Photo of the lunar eclipse on my crappy phone camera. It shows a small bright dot as the moon is peeking through a clear space between clouds.

March 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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Better than my picture, but my phone camera is crap.

A small red dot surrounded by darkness which is actually a rather bad picture of the moon during the lunar eclipse taken with a rather crappy phone camera.

March 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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A drawing of Smokey the Bear in his classic U.S. Forest Service park ranger hat leaning on a shovel. The text reads:

Only you can prevent forest fires

Seriously. We've been defunded. It's just you now.

February 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Calvin, a young boy in a blue coat and red hat, walks through a snow-covered landscape, talking to Hobbes, a tiger who sometimes appears as a stuffed toy but who more often appears as he does now, as a friendly tiger walking upright on two feet. He's smiling and has a red scarf around his neck against the winter cold.

Calvin is saying, "DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-quality minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people. It was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities."

February 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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I promised some time back to post the walking sticks when I was done. Voila! A picture!

Six homemade walking staffs leaning in a jumble against a white door in an unfinished basement. Some are taller, some shorter. Some are very straight, others have interesting wavy lines. All have been sanded smooth, stained, and then finished with glossy spar varnish.

January 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM

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The one in Rapid is postponed till the 25th.

Post from South Dakota Democracy in Action on Facebook: "Due to frigid temperatures and strong winds forecast for Saturday, January 18th, MARCH FOR DEMOCRACY PARADE is POSTPONED until Saturday, January 25th, 10am, meet at the bandshell, Memorial Park. Stay safe and warm everyone!!!!!"

January 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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Found on Facebook:

A 4-panel cartoon of a man getting told off by a woman. Woman looks less and less impressed as she gets in his face while man leans farther and farther back while looking more and more shocked at being called out on his B.S.
(Capitalized words are what was in boldface type in the text.)

1st panel: Man says, "Your body, my choice."

2nd panel: Woman says, "This is the most SELF-C*CKBLOCKING slogan in the history of slogans."

3rd panel: Woman continues, "Your desire to CONTROL OUR BODIES because you can't get LAID without COERCION is straight-up PATHETIC."

4th panel: Woman continues, "The Fascist PODCASTERS who told you that other people's BODILY AUTONOMY was a threat to your MASCULINITY forgot to mention how WEAK it makes you look."

January 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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A hand holds a twisted flat computer cable showing the plug ends.

December 31, 2024 at 7:19 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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This seemed to sum up the "how could they block me?" people.

The people who called us "the enemy from within living among us like vermin" seem very eager to post "we can disagree and be friends" shit now, like an abusive boyfriend after breaking a hole in the drywall.

December 13, 2024 at 8:10 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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This started as a couple of long branches and a short one left in front of my apartment along with a sanded down one my ex left behind in the basement. They all are currently drying on my front steps after being covered with stain. At least a couple are going into our shire's silent auction. #mySCA

Six long wooden walking staffs leaning against a wooden stoop railing. They are drying after having stain applied.

December 7, 2024 at 10:29 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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The top panel of the meme shows Mal, captain of the Firefly spaceship, standing in a beige shirt and overalls in front of an off-white wall held up by black struts, saying, "May have been on the losing side."
The bottom panel, which matches the top picture, shows Mal saying, "Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
(From the short-lived but fan loved tv series "Firefly".)

December 7, 2024 at 7:09 PM

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Update on the site tokens. I added more glitter to the teardrop-shaped things, especially those that just had prismatic glitter, but also bit more to the gold and silver ones.

Now to add the charms. But that's a job for later.

I really have no idea what these dangles are actually called.

A mixed pile of white with black stripes teardrop-shaped earring things that have had gold glitter, silver glitter, and prismatic glitter attached to them with the embossing powder that is usually used with rubber stamps.

A close-up of the pile of teardrop-shaped thingies that shows the ones with prismatic glitter slightly better. (The phone camera didn't want to capture the iridescence well but it shows on at least three and vague sparkles show on some others. The silver and gold coated ones are on the far right of the picture.

December 5, 2024 at 6:36 AM

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Working on site tokens for our January event. I ended up with a lot of these teardrop-shaped earring things in a grab bag and no clue what to do with them. I'm covering them with sparkly embossing powder and going to hang little metal charms on top of them.
Work in progress, partly done.

White with a black stripe teardrop-shaped earring thingies. They are about an inch and a half wide and two and a quarter long, and are meant to look like printed leather, but they are some sort of plastic instead. And I have over 50 of them.

The earring thingies after being covered with gold or silver sparkly embossing powder. This picture doesn't really do them justice, they look a bit better than this because of the sparkles.

Some of the charms to attach to the earrings teardrop things. Some are arrows, others are swords, still others are trees in circles which are often called trees of life.

December 4, 2024 at 10:25 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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In case you were ever interested, it seems these are formed in a mold. It also seems like the mold sometimes is overfilled or filled only partially.

Three little orange candy pumpkins. Two are short, about half-sized, meaning the mold didn't get filled completely, the other was overfilled and so has extra attached at either side, giving the impression of wings.

December 2, 2024 at 9:01 AM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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I've seen some posts about not ordering from Amazon during the workers' strike. This offers a different perspective, that slowing down orders lets Amazon get away with saying "we did just fine without these workers, so why should we meet their demands?"

(Post originally found on Discord.)

Two posts that argue refusing to order from Amazon during the workers' strike does more to favor Amazon than it does for the workers. It allows Amazon to manage to fulfill orders in spite of the strike due to lower volume of orders, rather than highlight the employees' essential work that lets these orders be fulfilled in a timely manner.
More succinctly, it allows Amazon to get away with saying "We did just fine without these workers, so why should we listen to their demands?"

November 29, 2024 at 6:47 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

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Half of a painted broken rock lying face down on a blue pillow. Only the unpainted side shows except for a tiny bit of white along the left side.

Half of a broken rock painted white and showing a black outline of an eye and some other black lines surrounding a wider bit of very faded orange with some small green lines.

Oh wow! Put together the broken rock becomes Olaf, the snowman from Frozen. A rock painted white has two eyes and eyebrows along with a line of dashes that form a mouth sketched out in black paint. The centers of the eyes are painted gold and between them and the mouth is a long orange triangle with green lines representing a carrot nose.

November 27, 2024 at 8:37 PM

Old Woman Yelling at Clouds

@bjdunfee.bsky.social

Found originally on Mastodon, I think this may sum up MAGA people as we move into Trump's second presidency.

Unfortunately we were around the first time and can't escape being around this time as well.